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Compucentre used to to sell the TG-16, I worked there back in the day and they even had the CD player add on. That ad with the 5200 is an American ad actually, I never did see a 5200 for sale in Montreal. Most of my ads are Canadian though.

Sure that's cool, they are meant to be shared.

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Ok I scanned some more, figured I'll just post them here since that's easier. I have very few Intellivision ads alas, I was much more of an Atari fanboy back in the day and then transitioned to Colecovision. On the back of some of these were ads for old computers so I scanned those as well. There's more but most of the remaining ads tend to be more for the NES era although there are still some Colecovision ads in there as well, I'll post them over time.

Yeah they are from Canada, Montreal to be exact. Games were pricey at the time, like from these ads which has Genesis games at $80 and Blazing Lasers for $90! I like the 3rd ad here which shows the 2600 still being sold alongside the Sega Genesis, that little 2600 had some serious lasting power. I guess I should just scan all these ads and toss them on a website, at least that way they all get preserved.

Wasn't sure where to put this, but I guess the general section works. I recently sold my entire video game collection, but found that I still have a binder full of old video game ads I used to collect when I was a kid, mostly from 1982 to 1988 or so time frame. I was wondering, are there any websites out there that like to archive such ads? I scanned a few and included them below, I can scan more if there are some websites out there that like this sort of thing. Seems like a waste for me to just keep them all in a box if there are others that like to revisit old video game print ads.

Lol I was thinking the exact same thing myself! He turned out to be a deadbeat bidder though, had to relist it.

I used to ship outside the usa but it was such a colossal hassle that I gave up on it alas.

Thanks! I had my fun with them, now it's time to pass them on to future collectors to enjoy.

I'm selling my entire Atari 2600 and Atari 5200 collection on ebay including many rares. See all the items listed under my username there 'joker454' at this link: http://www.ebay.com/sch/joker454/m.html It's over 400 items and there's about 2 days left in most of the auctions, this is a good way to get the missing items for your own collections!

Shown in the picture, top two rows and the left part of the lowest row. Still not complete, but getting there I also have a four port 5200 unit modified with s-video that sits on my office desk.